Word Definition

Fury

  1. pl. (Greek Myth.) The avenging deities, Tisiphone, Alecto, and Megaera; the Erinyes or Eumenides.
  2. Violent anger; extreme wrath; rage; -- sometimes applied to inanimate things, as the wind or storms; impetuosity; violence.
  3. Violent or extreme excitement; overmastering agitation or enthusiasm.
  4. One of the Parcae, or Fates, esp. Atropos.
  5. A stormy, turbulent violent woman; a hag; a vixen; a virago; a termagant.
  6. A thief.